Akoya's Escape

Chapter 4

It wasn't a long flight, but it started to get stormy.

Akoya reached the beach of the continent and looked around. She saw a gigantic light gray structure in the distance, like Moonshine said.

Guess I'm heading that way, she thought and started flying towards the distant shape.

Akoya felt raindrops starting to land on her wings as she reached the entrance of the tall walls.

"Halt!" one silver scaled dragon with armour said and stopped her. "Who are you?"

"I'm Akoya," she answered.

Another guard looked up and down on her. "What tribe are you from?"

"The SeaWings," Akoya responded.

The four guards looked each other, confused. They murmured together and then one said, "Stay here."

She waited with three guards as one flew into the large entrance they were guarding. Eventually, the guard came back and looked at one of the guards, then did some kind of movement that meant for the guard to come with the other one, and grabbed Akoya's arm. "You are coming with us," the guard said.

"Wait- what? Why?" Akoya fretted. "Let me go!"

"Shut up," one guard snapped.

"Behave well because you'll be meeting the queen," the other cautioned.

The queen? Akoya thought. Queen of what?

As the three dragons flew through the streets, she couldnt help but notice how futuristic the city was. There were tall metal poles with lights on them, signs that lit up, and machines that worked on their own. There were some tall structures as well, which seemed to be homes for the dragons living here. At last, they flew up and landed on a ledge which was near the walls around the city. They walked inside, and there was a white scaled dragon with a white glowing streak on her sides. She was wearing a gold crown with many gems embedded onto it.

"Thank you, you two may go," she dismissed the two guards who brought Akoya. The guards flew back out into the heavy rain. Then the dragon leaned in closer to Akoya. "Hello," she smirked.

"H-hi," Akoya stuttered.

"I heard that you are a SeaWing," the dragon said. "I was going to say that you are from one of Queen Maple's stupid tribes, but guess what, she's dead!"

Akoya smiled awkwardly as the white dragon laughted at her statement.

"Anyway, I am Queen Apple, the queen of the TechWings."

"Okay, nice... to meet you," Akoya said nervously.

"Because you are from a foreign tribe, I'm afraid that I will have to lock you up until I have decided what to do with you," Apple said as two guards grabbed Akoya's shoulders. "I know there's an entire city larger than mine for tribes like yours, but I will have to look into it."

Wait, hold on- did she just say that there is a whole city with SeaWings? Akoya thought with surprise.

"Wait-" she said as the guards took her away. Queen Apple didnt seem to hear her though, so Akoya just followed the guards outside and into a corner where there was a door. One guard unlocked it and they walked inside. He closed it as they walked down the dark stairs.

Might as well help them, Akoya thought and then shone her bioluminescent scales as bright as she could, making the staircase be visible of blue light. The guards glanced at her with surprise as they continued down the stairs. Eventually they reached the bottom, where it was lit up with white lights on the ceiling. There were many prison cells, left and right, all labeled with numbers above them. The guards continued down the broad hallway, and then they shoved her into a prison cell and closed it. The guards then left and it was pretty silent.

Akoya sighed. Great. Now I'm stuck in a prison. Thanks, Moonshine.

She let her thoughts wonder, when suddenly a sound and then a voice came out of nowhere.

"It is now night time. Have a good night, prisoners," it said.

Akoya went to her prison bars to look down the hallway. No one was there.

What? Who was that? Could it be another prisoner? she thought, confused.

She sighed. Whatever.

She closed her eyes and slept for a while.

Akoya woke up to someone whispering her name.

"...Huh?" she blinked as she looked outside of her prison bars.

"Hey," the voice said, and then a dragon appeared out of thin air.

Akoya yelped and jumped back out of fear.

"Sorry! Didn't mean to scare you! But you have to be quiet, because I'm getting you out of here," the orange dragon said.

"Who even are you?" Akoya asked.

"My name is Blissful, I am one of Moonshine's friends and I was sent to help you by her," she responded.

Blissful opened the cell door and Akoya walked out.

"Won't they find out?" She asked.

"Yes, so we have to be quick," Blissful replied. "Come on, lets go."

They hurried down the hall and up the stairs. Akoya flashed her scales again, until they reached the door. Blissful opened it and they ran behind the nearest building. Then they flew over the wall and they glided to a forest not too far from the city.

"Moonshine will meet with you here, just wait a little," Blissful said. "See you around!"

"See you," Akoya relpied as Blissful flew away. Then she turned around and laid down on the grass, until she heard footsteps. She looked up, and it was Moonshine.

"Hi! Did you like the TechWing city?" Moonshine asked. "Other than the prison."

"Well, yeah I guess, it looked pretty cool," Akoya responded.

"Great. Lets go," Moonshine said and was about to lift off when Akoya stopped her.

"Wait! Where are we going?" She asked, "Because every time you told me to go somewhere, I experience danger."

"Yeah, sorry about that, its just... Its just what I see in my visions," Moonshine answered.

Akoya sighed. "Okay."

"I'm sorry, I just... It is what it is," Moonshine said.

Akoya followed Moonshine through the night sky, waiting patiently for her next adventure.